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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Message-ID: <4254@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 21 May 89 18:20:27 GMT
References: <1728@fig.bbn.com> <3790007@eecs.nwu.edu> <320@xdos.UUCP> <1989May21.061438.14394@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1989May21.061438.14394@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> How are they supposed to know who you are?  (The Internet generally doesn't
> deign to recognize the existence of the UUCP maps, and even if they did,
> it is not necessarily true that "xdos.UUCP" and "xdos.com" are the same
> system.)  This is like asking the Post Office to deliver mail to you without
> telling them where you live.

All it would take is one site to set itself up as the MX forwarder for
the *.UUCP domain to make everyone in uucp-land happy, right? And if .UUCP
is such a small world compared to the internet that'd be no great load,
right? And, wow, uunet already does this for you... and gets paid for the
privilege.

I don't see the problem.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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